FIL-AM Carol Ojeda Kimbrough is an appointed member of the San Gabriel Planning Commission and Los Angeles County Commission on Public Social Services.
As a commission member in the Planning Commission, she and the other five members primary responsibility is to make recommendations to the City Council, as well as make decisions on land use issues.
She is a long-standing member of the San Gabriel community and activist in the Filipino-American community.
In San Gabriel, she’s heavily involved in the PTAs at Washington Elementary School, Jefferson Middle School and Gabrielino High School.
In the Fil-Am community, she co-chaired an effort to bring the Smithsonian Traveling Exhibit of "100 Years of Filipino Presence in the United States" to Los Angeles and was a member of the Kabataang Demokratiko ng Pilipinas that spearheaded protests against martial law in the Philippines during the 1970s.
When not serving in the San Gabriel community, Ojeda Kimbrough is a faculty member of California State University at Fullerton in the Asian American Studies program and doctoral student at UCLA’s School of Public Policy and Social Research.
Prior to joining CSUF, she served as a consultant with the UCLA Lewis Center where she researched on environmental justice and labor unions.
She also serves as a Teaching Fellow at CSUF where she teaches an undergraduate seminar on The Urban Environment and Social Justice.
( Published March 10, 2010 in Asian Journal Los Angeles p. B2 )
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